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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  is 
  that 
  savages 
  are 
  utterly 
  unteachable." 
  

   His 
  opponents, 
  fixing 
  their 
  eyes 
  on 
  the 
  

   more 
  advanced 
  tribes, 
  say, 
  " 
  See 
  how 
  clear 
  

   it 
  is 
  that 
  men 
  once 
  savage 
  can 
  invent 
  and 
  

   practise 
  useful 
  arts." 
  Whately 
  says, 
  " 
  Prove 
  

   to 
  me, 
  first, 
  that 
  these 
  Mandans 
  had 
  ever 
  

   been 
  as 
  savage 
  as 
  their 
  neighbours; 
  and 
  

   secondly, 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  raised 
  themselves." 
  

   Sir 
  J. 
  Lubbock 
  replies 
  that 
  on 
  the 
  conditions 
  

   laid 
  down 
  by 
  Whately 
  no 
  such 
  proof 
  is 
  

   possible. 
  If 
  any 
  record 
  could 
  be 
  found 
  of 
  

   the 
  former 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  Mandans, 
  the 
  

   very 
  existence 
  of 
  such 
  a 
  record 
  would 
  prove 
  

   former 
  contact 
  with 
  civilized 
  peoples, 
  and 
  if 
  

   such 
  contact 
  were 
  proved, 
  Whately 
  would 
  

   attribute 
  to 
  such 
  contact 
  the 
  improvement 
  

   which 
  is 
  observed. 
  -On 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  if 
  

  

  